A MIXED bag of weather is being forecast for North Wales this weekend.
As always, the experts at the Met Office have offered their weather predictions for the coming days.
On Friday (July 26), they are forecasting a 'drier and brighter day', with 'sunny spells' developing for many.
However, they add that there will likely be some 'showers' for us here in the north, these being 'heavy through the afternoon'.
They added that some spells that day will leave us 'feeling pleasant in the sunshine'.
Meanwhile, the Met Office's outlook for Saturday (July 27) to Monday (July 29) is as follows: "Sunshine and locally heavy showers on Saturday, especially in the west.
"Mostly dry with sunny spells and mostly light winds Sunday and Monday and turning warmer from the south."
The Met Office adds that climate change is causing a 'dramatic increase' in the frequency of temperature extremes and number of temperature records the UK experiences.
The most recent decade has had around 20% more days of exceptional rainfall compared to the 1961-1990 averaging period.
While there is no significant signal for this change being more pronounced in a specific area of the UK, overall, this analysis clearly shows an increase in the number of very wet days in the UK’s climate in recent years compared to what was observed just a few decades ago.
Professor Liz Bentley, Chief Executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, said: “The new analysis of days that are classified as ‘hot’ or having ‘exceptional rainfall’ highlights the increased frequency in high impact extremes we are already experiencing in the UK, and the attribution studies help to understand how human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, are making these extreme events much more likely to happen as our climate continues to change.”
2023 was the UK’s second warmest, seventh wettest and 22nd sunniest year in records dating back to 1884, 1836 and 1910 respectively.
There was of course regional variability, with Wales and Northern Ireland recording their warmest years on record for example.
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